Tito Ortiz

UFC President Dana White’s new show on Discovery debuts tonight. “The Fighters” features gym owner and former fighter Peter Welch as he enlists Boston’s top boxing trainers in an effort to revive boxing in Boston. The man who helped build the UFC (and by default, MMA) into the highly-popular sport it is today, is hoping to pump new life blood into another sport dear to his heart.

In a recent talk with media members about “The Fighters” and his own boxing roots, White expounded on the time when he and former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz were going to have a little boxing match of their own.

Two former UFC Light Heavyweight champions will clash on Nov. 2 in Long Beach, Calif., but it won’t be inside the UFC Octagon. Tito Ortiz and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will square off inside the Bellator MMA cage LIVE on the promotion’s inaugural Pay-Per-View event.

In his 15+ years as a professional MMA fighter Tito Ortiz has never tested positive for any illegal or banned substance, performance enhancing drug or steroid. However, Jenna Jameson, his longtime on-again-off-again girlfriend and mother of his twin boys is claiming she saw him fake drug tests while fighting for the UFC.

What a difference a few months can make. UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz and his ex-pornstar babies’ mamma Jenna Jameson looked the picture of happiness in these pics from Valentine’s Day 2013.
Sure, they’ve had their ups-and-downs like any high profile couple living under the bright lights of Hollywood paparazzi and press. Like, remember the time Tito held that press conference to deny Jenna’s claims of domestic abuse and accused her of being addicted to Oxycontin? You know, just typical stuff we all go through.

I’m talking about jobs with the UFC after fighting. Both Liddell and Hughes received positions with the company that seem to have come from a sense of loyalty they both showed to the organization and to boss Dana White over the years.

UFC Hall of Famer Tito Oritz is not happy. His final fight inside the Octagon was a rubber match against Forrest Griffin at UFC 148. It was a close fight, Tito dropped Forrest a couple times, but in the end the judges awarded Forrest the decision. After the fight however, it came out that Forrest is yet another fighter that has received a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

“UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen II” takes place Saturday night in Las Vegas and you know what that means. That’s right, it’s time for ProMMAnow.com to round up the troops to send in their staff picks. And whether it was by snail mail, email or carrier pigeon, or Furby with his smoke signals, we have the complete main card breakdown and predictions for you right here. This one is a biggie!

Tito Ortiz spoke with ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) and other media at the UFC 148 open workouts Thursday in Las Vegas. Tito discussed why he chose this time to retire from fighting, what he wants to do after he retires, his disdain for Ariel Helwani, how he will deal with the emotion of being inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame just hours before the fight and much more.